Sentence examples for concrete did from inspiring English sources

"His sartorial attempt to blend in with the concrete did little to assuage the tension," read one early post.

Executives at Fabi Construction of Egg Harbor Township, N.J., the company hired to install the concrete, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Only it's the kind of park that actually means car parking, and swathes of tarmac and concrete did little to alleviate the floodwaters.

The concrete did not reach the Parker Meridien's main lobby, which stretches from 56th Street to 57th, just west of Avenue of the Americas, said Marisa Zafran, a spokeswoman for the hotel.

Nevertheless, the presence of rubber in concrete did not demonstrate brittle failure, but rather a ductile which had an ability to withstand post-failure loads.

Slag concrete behaved better than fly ash concrete did under high temperature exposure for all case, some of slag concrete even behaved better than Portland cement concrete in terms of compressive strength reduction.

"Concrete doesn't yield when your head hits concrete," he said.

"People raised on the concrete don't understand people raised on the dirt," he said.

Those reactions use up the water — concrete doesn't "dry out" through evaporation — and produce heat.

"We don't need a drop ceiling here, we don't need to do anything to the concrete — don't need color on these tiles," Samson went on.

Plain concrete does not easily withstand stresses such as wind action, earthquakes, and vibrations and other bending forces and is therefore unsuitable in many structural applications.